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WyColoCowboy: I made note of the start of the 22 L.R. "shortage" - it began in October of 2,012 when it became apparent barrack hussein obama would be re-elected!
This shortage has NOT subsided since.
That was 35 months ago.
OR... going on three full years.
I agree with everything else you posted though.
I got up at zero dark thirty this morning to drive 90 miles (each way) through the Rocky Mountains to be first in line at a sporting goods stores annual Hunters Rendevous Sale.
I was able to purchase 1 (ONE!) of 4 "buckets" of Remington 22 L.R. H/P Golden Bullets - that bucket held 1,400 rounds of ammo and cost me $99.99!
I asked one of my travelmates who doesn't use 22 ammo to buy a 235 pack of Winchester 22 L.R. H/P's for me at $15.99.
So with this I have enough new ammo for 1/3 of next years Ground Squirrel season, for me.
Again I am quite certain that October of 2,012 was when the rimfire shortage began here in the west and northwest where I travel often and extensively.
By the way that Remington ammo today came out to 7.1 cents per round!
I cringed at that price but felt lucky to get it - those few buckets of ammo lasted maybe 2 minutes once the customers were let in.
NO 17 Mach2 ammo on hand at all.
Good supply of 17 HMR ammo though at $10.99 per 50 or $109.90 per 500 pack.
Some other 22 L.R. ammo was available but sold quickly.
I hope this shortage is over sometime during what is left of my lifetime - irregardless of WHEN it started.
I hope you can replenish the young mans ammo supply soon.
Sadly (for my peace of mind and for the Ground Squirrels!) several of my Varminting friends and acquaintances were reduced to Hunting them with non-hollowpoint 22 rimfire ammo of recent.
And that was not a pleasant situation!
But, they could only come up with round nose ammo or round nose standard velocity etc, etc, etc.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

Flave we chatted a while ago about this but why more people don't shoot TAC I have no idea. Since I first tried it in my 82G, I've acquired 15-20 bricks of same without breakin a sweat.
An honest comparison would have it $10-15 more per brick than all the other "bulk" ammo and accuracy can border on insane..

Craziest thing is it's available pretty much all the time

Also I have been sending 17 supers down range for a while now. Lots of that on the shelves. True it is 30 cents a round but it can also reach out to touch someone at 250 yards

VarmintGuy,

So you're still charging around Montana in your vehicle looking for ammo. You $100 for the 1400 rounds of .22 Golden Bullet HP's, and probably $40 in gas. That comes out to 10 cents a round.

In the past two months I've found 2 bricks of the same ammo on the Internet, and with shipping it came out to 6 cents a round. Do the math.

I have some of it but not a lot.

One thing this goat fugk we call a president has cured me of, is shooting schitty 22LR ammo. The peasants can have it.




Travis

Yep. I still acquire some of the cheap (as in schitty) .22 LR from time to time, but only because I have to report on ALL kinds of .22 ammo. If it were up to me I'd only shoot the better .22 ammo, or .17 HMR.

John,

Check out my breakfast this morning. Roll of Jimmy Dean. Bag of tater tots. Dozen eggs. UBER.

Looks GOOD!

We just got our kitchen back together after a total remodel, and it is amazing how being able to COOK again uplifts the spirits.

And of course uplifting a Tumbleweed (another form of spirits) helps too. And I am in the middle of doing that.

Having no kitchen can really make a family appreciate having a kitchen. That is for certain.




Travis

wow, no smoke there?

I have shot mostly Stingers for years. if I can't get them, I go to CF, .223 out of the "60 gr. NBT in once fired LC" bucket or .45 auto out of the "200 gr. cast in some sort of Mil brass" bucket..

toad,

It was real bad Friday. But the winds kicked up to 30-40 and blew all that schit out of here. Calmed down again Saturday evening and it was gorgeous again.

Smoke was creeping back into the Bear Paws around noon yesterday though.




Travis

I must have missed something... TAC 22 ammo?? Where is this made..

Deflave, When you talk about not shooting cheap ammo, what is your favorite..?? Haven't bought a lot of .22 ammo since this crap started.. But did buy some for folks who couldn't locate any, but they never showed up to pick it up.. So I will shoot it away...
Your breakfast did look UBER, but those eggs NEED PEPPER!!!
You choice of breakfast beer was infinitely better than my pal, he had Miller MGD!!

Mule Deer: I "charge around Montana (and the west!)" for multiple reasons and while doing so I always check for rimfire ammo along the way.
I hope that's okay with you?
Make NO mistake the $115.00 on 22 ammo I spent was not all I shelled out there at the wonderful annual Hunters Rendevous!
I also purchased a spotting scope, some Ruger MK-II magazines, a Bushnell window mount, a Remington bolt action 22, an 8 pack of WONDERFUL fried chicken from the store there in Ennis... THEN we went to a couple of high end (upscale!) garage sales there where we really unleashed some bucks - but most of those items were non-gun related except for a new Leatherman tool I got for a pittance!
By the way three of us shared the gas for my family truckster (Chevy Malibu V-6 which gets 33 to 34 miles per gallon) so the fuel price was negligible - $5.00 or so for me.
Math is done - I will keep travellin and lookin its fun and stimulates the economy and the participants.
And by the way, by the way, my friend from Big Sheep Creek came by yesterday after church and saw my bucket'o ammo and offered me $25.00 more than I paid for it.
I told him I would think about it.
By the way, by the way, by the way was that ammo you FOUND on the internet hollow-point stuff?
I am only interested in hollow-points for my own use.
Hold into the wind
VarmintGuy

VG, Check Natchez, my pal and his son scored on some CCI mini mag htps just the other day.. I think they were allowed 600 rds..

WCH, bullets.com has TAC in stock and tho they can KMA with their no sales to CA policy, their price is the best. There's just no way I'll pay even 40 a brick when TAC is 55 and worth every penny of that.

Of course we know what shines in my rifles may not in yours but you owe It to yourself to give it a shot. 40-50 for the true "bulk" stuff is a joke..

I'll pay a little extra for CCI SV because it too has excelled in a few of my guns but that's about it. If you get some let us know how you like it..

Thanks.. I will check this out..

Now dat's a yummy looking breakfast! Typical 'Flave fare?

If you guys can't get HPs, get Paco Kellys ATS system flat pointer. Those flat point bullets stop a critter right now.

I ran a bunch of that TAC 22 stuff this past weekend out of my 10/22 and my M77/22. Both rifles shot it really well.

VarmintGuy,

Sounds like you had a great time, a lot more fun than surfing the Internet. Good deal on sharing the gas!

Yeah, the two "bricks" I got were both HP's, 1050 total rounds. The prices on the two averaged out to $25.50, but with shipping the total price for both was a little over $60.